Chapter 249: Inexplicable Provocation
The Knicks do not have an overall core, and the reason why they play smoothly is that they give full play to everyone's enthusiasm and the tactical thinking is very unified, that is, they play their own offense to the fullest, and drive the overall defense through offense.
The biggest feature of this tactic is that once it hits smoothly, it enters its own rhythm and is unstoppable, which is a bit similar to Nelson's run-and-gun tactics of the old one.
Xue Ding has experienced more than two months of NBA training, if he relied on instinctive basketball literacy to feel the rhythm of the opponent's offense and defense before, then now standing in the position of the team's brain, is to quickly read the game, lead the team in a targeted manner, play his own style, and stifle the opponent.
With a clear guiding ideology, the Trail Blazers' defensive enthusiasm is not only much more active, but also much more targeted.
That is man-to-man defense, everyone defends their own people first, rotates in a timely manner, strengthens the defensive pressure on the ball carriers, and controls the passing line to increase the pressure on everyone in the Knicks.
With 3:44 left in the scoring time, the Trail Blazers led by 3 points.
Chris? Du Hong dribbled past half the court, and the cockscomb man immediately pressed up, and Xue Ding followed closely with David Lee, who was also brought into the inside range.
Gallinari raised the high post and brought Ade out, Jeffries and Chandler tangle under the basket, Wilson? Chandler's running position was closely pursued by Batum.
The Knicks needed an offensive starting point, but now everyone was being defended to death, and in this case, David Lee reached out and asked, after receiving the ball, to use his height advantage to hit Xue Ding with his back.
Xue Ding had been prepared for this for a long time, and he was relieved to let David Lee receive the ball smoothly and keep a one-step distance to defend.
After David Li received the ball, Xue Ding did not follow closely, but turned directly to the frame, and kept making tentative steps towards Xue Ding.
Xue Ding was unmoved, maintaining his center of gravity and rhythm, and had already thought of no less than ten sets of ways to deal with David Li's possible offensive moves.
David Lee felt Xue Ding's defense, and quickly lifted the ball with both hands, intending to shoot, Xue Ding quickly moved to the right, further cutting off David Lee's intention to break through from the strong side.
Feeling that his thoughts were recognized, the time was only 7 seconds, and it was too late to carry out other attacks, David Lee had no choice but to dribble and take a step back, taking advantage of his height to shoot directly.
But he obviously underestimated Xue Ding's jumping ability, as soon as his legs straightened, he straightened his waist and made a move, when a black shadow in front of him pounced on him.
With a "snap", the basketball that had just broken away from the fingers suffered a heavy blow.
Before David Lee could react, a gust of wind passed by, and at the same time Xue Ding landed, he grabbed the ball in front of him, pushed the ball and started to accelerate, and under the gaze of the whole audience, he rushed to the front court at a gallop and staged a big windmill slam dunk show again.
The Trail Blazers continued to expand the score, keeping the Knicks at bay from both offensive and defensive ends.
As soon as there was a problem with the offense, the Knicks, who were not the focus of defense, lost their rhythm in an instant, and the timing of the shot was much hasteer, which brought about a situation that directly lost points.
At the end of the first half, the Trail Blazers led by 12 points.
During the intermission, Xue Ding took the time to make a phone call to Yaya, in the past, when he was playing, he never needed to be distracted, but now he can't help it, once he relaxes, he has a worry in his heart.
Yaya told Xue Ding that everything was fine, and his parents would take care of him, so he didn't have to worry too much and played with peace of mind.
A phone call can't solve anything, but through the phone and listening to Yaya's voice, Xue Ding feels that his heart is still a lot quieter.
At the beginning of the second half, the Knicks made a small adjustment, and the main vacant Chris? Du Hong was replaced by Robinson, a small potato, and this substitution made Xue Ding have but a surprise.
Although Chris? Du Hong didn't play very well, but his performance was decent, the key was that he was physically strong or could cause a little trouble to Xue Ding, and now he was replaced by a pocket player with a height of only 175, and the gap between strength and height was completely too big, how could this be opposed.
As soon as the game began, Xue Ding understood that Robinson came up not to defend, but to break the offensive situation.
Small, super fast, amazing bounce, explosive, almost like a group of giant elephants coming to a nimble monkey, breaking, dunking, scoring, and from time to time to give you a three.
In just three minutes on the field, the offensive rhythm that had just been suppressed by Xue Ding was stimulated.
A wave of 10:5 offense brought the two sides to the same running line again, and the score time was still 7 minutes and 12 seconds.
Pritchard called a timeout and made only a very simple tactical adjustment, letting Xue Ding defend the potato, and Batum was too hard to chase.
Originally, as a striker, Batum's physical fitness and speed were very good, but when it came to Robinson's low height, fast speed, and low center of gravity, Batum had no way to contain it at all.
The timeout came back and the game continued.
The Knicks attacked, Schröding directly faced Robinson, face to face, Xue Ding had a feeling, too small, just like facing a stronger junior high school student.
Robinson faced Xue Ding's attack, his center of gravity was pressed very low, and there was a look of disdain on his face, Xue Ding didn't know why, but the other party's disdainful expression was very obvious.
Wilson? Chandler stepped forward to block the demolition, Robinson accelerated, and rushed to the inside line as soon as he slipped through the smoke, Xue Ding was a feeling, and suddenly remembered the cartoon he saw when he was a child.
Robinson's breakthrough gives people the feeling that this is it, small, fast, and if you are not careful, the person is gone.
As soon as he broke through to the inside, Ade moved sideways to fill in the position, and before he was in place, he was dodged by Robinson's very dexterous dribbling, and directly faced Jeffries and Chandler under the basket and jumped with a dunk.
After landing on the ground, Robinson slapped his chest excitedly, chattering trash in his mouth, and came to Xue Ding, full of provocation.
The home fans were as passionate as the fans of any team.
Xue Ding ignored Robinson's provocation, mainly because he was not familiar at all, and if he wanted to talk about his popularity in the alliance, Xue Ding believed that he was now much more famous than Little Potato.
It's not who provokes, it's all worth spraying, the simplest idea is very simple, just explode.
Xue Ding dribbled past half the court, and the little potato directly stuck Xue Ding's lower plate with his body, not letting his first step take a very easy step, the method was right, but the difference between the height and weight of the two was too big, Xue Ding flicked his left hand, and the little potato was isolated.